![]() Right out of the gate, BSS sustained a frenzied momentum with up-tempo, ecstatic guitar workouts such as “7/4 Shoreline,” “Fire-Eyed Boy” and “Stars and Sons” (with its big “Freebird” ending), performing in front of a cloth backdrop featuring a mountain range not unlike the Flatirons which tower over Boulder. And unlike its last few tours, BSS-which currently features four guitars, a two-man horn section, bass and drums-is now filling its setlists with fan favorites rather than toying around with hit-or-miss material from Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew’s solo records, so feeling crammed in didn’t feel so bad. and Naropa hipsters and 30-something music geeks standing shoulder to shoulder, drinks in hand amid the intermittent clouds of pot smoke Drew is always requesting come his way when he’s on stage. So was the packed Boulder Theater, full of C.U. We’re gonna play as many songs as we can…and I’m sweatin’ it out.” “I’m trying to lose weight, people,” Drew said. Then again, it’d be wrong to expect absolute reason from the man made famous by singing lines like, “I swore I drank your piss that night / to see if I could still live.” Seeing as most of Saturday featured t-shirt weather in Boulder, it crossed my mind that the proudly Canadian rockstar could be holding on tight to the idea that winter might not be over. ![]() Better Than: Learning just hours before the show that our armed forces had entered yet another war with a small Middle-Eastern nation rich with natural resources.ĭressed in a cream-colored parka, Broken Social Scene frontman Kevin Drew skipped onto the Boulder Theater stage last night pumping his fist along to the Toronto-based indie supergroup’s customarily euphoric opener, “KC Accidental,” from BSS’s 2003 breakthrough You Forgot It in People.
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